Practically 100 robots will function clever assistants for visitors on the 2025 Zhongguancun Discussion board, scheduled to happen subsequent week, providing individuals a cutting-edge convention expertise, a senior official stated on Thursday.

“We purpose to make the ZGC Discussion board’s annual assembly a grand stage for the concentrated show of recent applied sciences, merchandise, and situations,” stated Jin Wei, deputy mayor of the capital, at a information convention on Thursday morning.

This yr’s ZGC Discussion board shall be held in Beijing from March 27 to 31, with the annual theme of “New High quality Productiveness and World Science and Know-how Cooperation”.

Based on Jin, humanoid robots will entice a whole lot of consideration and be a significant spotlight of this yr’s discussion board.

“All through the discussion board, 15 firms will deploy practically 100 robots throughout numerous situations, dealing with duties equivalent to welcoming visitors, partaking in conversations, internet hosting boards, and performing,” he added. “These robots not solely function lifelike appearances but additionally reveal superior intelligence, serving as ‘clever assistants’ to supply attendees a singular interactive expertise.”

The discussion board will incorporate different new synthetic intelligence applied sciences.

As an example, with AI-powered simultaneous interpretation methods and superior voiceprint recognition and becoming applied sciences, audio system can ship speeches of their native languages. On the similar time, real-time translations are offered in a number of languages. The viewers will hear the interpreted speech by way of their earphones in a voice resembling that of the speaker.

Different applied sciences shall be adopted in numerous situations. Digital IDs, desk indicators, and sensible providers shall be extensively used. The autonomous shuttle providers will even be ready for visitors.

The 2025 ZGC Discussion board annual assembly will give attention to cutting-edge subjects equivalent to embodied intelligence and quantum know-how, with the institution of 10 branded boards and 50 innovation boards, together with the inaugural Open Science Worldwide Discussion board and the AI-themed days.

The occasion will even host the Future Synthetic Intelligence Pioneer Discussion board and numerous actions to ascertain itself as a “beacon” for cutting-edge applied sciences.

Based in 2007 with “Innovation and Growth” as its everlasting theme, the ZGC Discussion board is a nationwide platform for China’s world scientific and technological innovation exchanges and cooperation.